About SCCS

We're the Swarthmore College Computer Society, or SCCS for short: a student-run group offering computing services, tools, toys, and information to the Swarthmore College community. Our goal is not to mirror ITS, but to complement and supplement widely available services by providing resources that would otherwise be out of the reach of individuals. For our part, SCCS Staff learn extremely practical system administration and software development skills—the stuff you can't learn in a CS lecture.

Our Services

The Cygnet: The Swarthmore College student directory
The RSD: A daily email with news, events, jobs, and more
Course Planner: Plan your schedule for next semester
Mailing Lists: Distribute emails to clubs and student groups
GPA Calculator: Quickly calculate your Swarthmore GPA
SCCS Sites: Create sites with Wordpress
Minecraft: The Swarthmore College Minecraft server
Advanced: Some more goodies for the tech-savvy

Who We Are

SCCS is run entirely by student volunteers. We're not affiliated with Swarthmore ITS nor the Computer Science department (although our staff are sometimes CS majors, for obvious reasons). We accept new members in the first few weeks of each semester.

Executive Board

President: Thomas Makin '25
VP, Finance (Treasurer): Theo Yochum '27
VP, Human Capital: George Fang '26
VP, Infrastructure: Leo Douhovnikoff '25
VP, Program Management: Victor Sumano Arango '25
VP, Public Relations: Lily Davoren '25
VP, Software Engineering: Damian Rene '27
VP, System Architecture: Jhovani Gallardo Moreno '25

Project Leads

3D Campus Map

Aidan Corpus '26
Ava Babcock '27

AirPool

Finn McKibbin '27

Reserved Students Digest

Jhovani Gallardo Moreno '25

Course Planner

Damian Rene '27
Victor Sumano Arango '25

Project Dormhunter

Jhovani Gallardo Moreno '25
Victor Sumano Arango '25

SwatSwap

Eli Young '26

Staff

Adrian Duran Rey '27
Ahmad Fayyaz '27
Aidan Corpus '26
Aiperi Bush '28
Alina Vykliuk '26
Ary Iyer '28
Beck Nigussie '25
Carson Lin '27
Chait Motwane '25
Emma Garrett '25
Ethan Pang '27
Eve Elrod '28
Fola Kehinde '28
Francisco Lopez '25
Gia Kwon '27
Ingrid Hsu '28
Jaehoon Son '27
Jamie Pickar '26
Jasmine Fan '25
Jay Iyer '28
Jonathan Guzman '27
Jules Cruz '27
Katelynn Swaim '25
Nick Fettig '26
Omar Khan '25
Pedro Cruz '25
Queenie Lin '28
Samchan Lee '28
Tunmise Kehinde '27
Violet Garibaldi '28

Statement on Application Strategy

SCCS has a semesterly application cycle. We interview, select, and purge staff members based purely on experience, interest, activity, and occasionally interpersonal relationships. We include the following statement on our application form describing this policy:

SCCS does not discriminate based on any attributes, protected or otherwise, with the only exceptions being CS skill/knowledge and interpersonal conflicts. However, we recognize that studies show some protected groups are disproportionately unlikely to complete applications if they feel they may not be qualified. We would like to emphasize: You lose nothing by applying. Worst-case scenario, you can reapply next semester, and we give application priority to reapplicants. We've admitted people who got every coding question wrong and people who had to reapply multiple times, and often these are some of our most active members. We want you to apply, even if you are afraid you don't have the experience.

Our one hard requirement is you must have taken, be enrolled in, or have equivalent experience to a 30-level CS course. This is purely to ensure you've worked with at least one "curly brace" language (i.e. C, Java, JS, etc., NOT Python) so we don't have to start from scratch teaching for our work in JavaScript. We do "hiring" cycles semesterly so if you got lotteried out or otherwise need more experience, it won't be long before you can apply again.